With Wife, Children, and Friends
    With Wife, Children, and Friends

    With Wife, Children, and Friends

    1961
    156 min
    Japan

    Synopsis

    Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes to Tokyo in 1926 from faraway Kagoshima to join the Tokyo police force. His closest friend is Nihei, a farmer's son from Tohoku who becomes the steadying influence on headstrong Henmi.

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